Kids App Guide
Your child can see everything NestPatrol does on their phone. This page shows their app the way they see it, which is worth knowing before they ask you about it.
NestPatrol Kids needs the Parent App. The Kids App is not a standalone product. It cannot be set up, and does nothing at all, without an active NestPatrol parent account and a device enrolled from the Parent App or the web dashboard.
Home
A shield that says, in plain words, whether protection is on: “Protection Active,” “Almost fully protected,” “Protection is off,” or “Device disconnected” if the phone has lost its connection to your account, each with a tap-to-fix that opens the right setting. During setup this screen is the guided checklist. The Emergency SOS button lives here too, and keeps working even if the phone is blocked: one tap, a confirmation, and you get an alert with their location. The app tells them clearly that NestPatrol is not 911.
What’s shared
The second tab (labeled “What’s shared” in the app itself) shows the protection actually running on the phone right now: Wi-Fi status, whether web filtering is active, the current rules from you, and a protection summary. Nothing here is hidden from the child; they can see the filter is on, which is exactly why they stop testing it.
Activity
One tab with two halves: Requests at the top, Chat with Parent below it.
Chat with Parent
Plain messages to you, with quick presets alongside a free-text box. “Can you pick me up?” arrives on your phone and your reply comes back here. Some kids will use this more than texting because it feels official.
Requests
Two one-tap cards: Unblock to ask for time, and Remove App to ask you to uninstall NestPatrol. Every request needs a reason and comes to you for a decision. The uninstall request is deliberate: the app cannot be quietly removed, but your child always has a legitimate path to ask.
Help
People they can reach: emergency contacts you assigned come first, then age-appropriate crisis lines. The lines 911, 988, Crisis Text Line, and Childhelp are always shown and cannot be hidden, by design. Contacts you assign also appear in the phone’s own contact app, and on the lock screen if the phone is locked by a rule.
Settings
Reached from a gear icon, not a bottom tab. This is the permission list from setup, kept live: Usage Access, Accessibility, Device Admin, Location, Notifications, Battery optimization, and Contacts and call protection, each with a plain-language status your child can tap to fix.
“What can my parent see?”
A separate info icon opens a full, plain-language breakdown of everything NestPatrol shares with you: the accessibility service and why it exists, on-screen text and safety alerts (only the flagged excerpt is saved, ordinary safe conversation is not), Contacts & Calls (phone numbers on the device, and that blocked numbers cannot call or be called), screen time per app, app inventory, location and safety zones, device health, web activity, and device model. It is shown once before setup as the required consent step, and can be reopened any time after. That transparency is your child’s answer to “what can my parent see,” and it is accurate on purpose: trust survives supervision only when the child can check what is shared.